Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-14

or we will cut your dam wires, and do i
AZ often as we please. You can't get u'
all, and you had better let the matter
drop.
DENNIsoN, O., April II, 1891"
Superintendent Taylor read it over care
fully aud then smiled as he said he had nj
fears of the threats being executed. lie
picked il up a second time, however, wheI
asked by the writer if he could recogniz,
the handwriting. After carefully study
ing the handwriting for moment, MIR
TAYLOR said he believed he could place the
man who wrote it.
A careful inspection will be made of tht
signatures of all of the employees who slgr
their names to the pay rolls. 1t will thu:
be q not very difficult matter to locate the
man who wrote the letter.
The letter shows that there are still
dangerous trainmen at large The threats
coming so soon after the arrests proves
that the desperadoes who are still at large
are willing to resort to any method to re
tain their freedom. They believe thai
they can intimidate the railroad officials
In this they are mistaken. Ii will re-
double the efforts of the officials to hunt
down every man on the road who has been
identified with the robberies.
The letter that was sent to Superintend-
ent Taylor is regarded as an additional
evidence that the men are organized. The
fact OF it's coming from DenniSOn shows
that that place is still the rendezvous of 8
number of the men. That only portion
4. l., orrnginl
There may yet be still more startling
events in the final execution of the gigan'
tic plan of unearteing robberies that is be-
ing 80 ably executed by the detective EN-
plOved by the Panhandle Company.
Detectives COuls0n and Shore were at
the Union Station at o'clock this morn
ing They accompanied the pay car on its
trip to-day. The men will he paid at
Washington, Wheeling and Steubenville
to-day and at DennisOn tomorrow. The
detectives will keep sharp lookout TO-
day for all suspected freight trainmcn.
Superintendent Taylor, in speaking OF
the arrests, stated this morning that there
were still large number of the tralnmen
on the Pittsburg division on whom there
did not rest the slightest suspicion. FOr
these the company has the kindest feeling.
lie said that there were eighty through
freights between Pittsburg and Columbus.
OF this number thirty-fye were west OF
DennisOn, and were not under surveil-
lance.
OF the remaining forty-tive crews, en-
plOying $50 men, sixty were arrested. This
left about 12O men between Pittsburg and
Dennison, he said, who were not under
suspicion, and were still working.
THE GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE \ HAND.
The United States authorities have de,
cided TO proceed against the Panhandle
plundcrers for breaking into Government
bonded cars. Investigation is now in
progress here and The matter will then be
laid before the Department of Justice for
further action.
NEVER SAW ANYTHING CROOKED.
John Nimmo, Chief of the Brotherhood
of BrakemeD, on the Panhandle road,
called on Deputy Mayor Gripp, before
whom warrants had been sworn out this
morning and said he had been employed
on the Panhandle road for the past four
months, during that time he had never seen
anything crooked among the employees. The
brotherhood he said would employ counsel
to defend the prisoners and ifpOssible estab-
lish their innocence. If proof is assured of
their guilt, however, the brotherhood would
assist in their conviction. 1t was the inten-
ton also to proceed against the company
for damages if charges against any of the
men under arrest were not sustained. De-
tectiye Coulson, of the city police, lett
this morning to arrest several men who
had been in the employ of the company but
had left before the exposure.
The men, it is claimed, are known to
have been among the most prominent and
reckless on the Panhandle. They are now
in the employ ofthe Pennsylvania railroad,
the Fort Wayne, the Lake Erie and b. &
q. 1t is asserted that these men
WENT To THE OTHER LINES TO ORGANIZE
the crews of those roads with a view t.
systematic robbery. The probability that
robberies extended to the Fort Wayne
and Cleveland and Pittsburgh is based or
the fact of the roads paralleling eacl
other for a considerable distance, and o.
the naturally close relations which would
exist among the men engaged on them
The Pennsylvania Company announced
through one of its leading officials to-day,
that five days would he given 10 people
having in their possession goods stOleT
from the Panhandle lines, in which tO
return the same. All these packages must
he addressed 'E. B. Taylor, Superin
tendent Package Room Union Depot,
Pittsburg" No questions will be asked,
and no further investigations followed, il
the goods are returned. The company
has list of over forty houses in this city
in which stolen property is concealed, and
it is to reach these, and thereby avoid nu'
merous arrests, that this method has
been adopted.
As time progresses the most
POSITIVE AND CoNFIRMATORY EVIDENCE;
accumulate showing that the peculation.
on the Panhandle have been far in exceS
OF that which has been reported by tht
officials and Others, who might be inter
ested in placing the losses at the loves
figure. This afternoon it came to ligh
that car was rifled Sunday a week ago
between this city and Dennison, not {
single article of value-being left behind
This bold move on the part of the railway
freeboOters brought them booty valued a
s.; 500. 1t has been stated by parties in
American Detective Bureaus Office in thi
city, that the stolen goods stored in tn
rear of Mr.. Gilkeson's private Office con
tain SlOO, 600 worth of valuables, apart o
which was obtained at the city fences.
An addition has been made to the recOv
cred property by the goods brought bacl
from New Waterford, Ohio, by Detectiv
John T. Morris, who also had with hin
Elmer. Young, another of the accused rail
rOaders. The railroad company has al
ready satisfied most OF the claims OF tn
consignees of the stolen property. Tn
goods in the hands of the detectives vii
be sold at auction when all the cases ar